Chapter 40: Quark-level device, energy storage in Nanmen II A

Five years passed in a flash.

Yan Xia waited for the latest spacecraft that can detect the interior of a star - Luanfeng.

The spacecraft is not big, only more than 30 meters long and 262 meters thick. It looks like a triangular fighter.

The exterior of the fighter is painted orange and yellow. This paint is certainly not for beauty, but to make the metal itself more resistant to high temperatures.

Proxima Centauri is 0.21 light years away from the Alpha Centauri binary star system, about 13,281 astronomical units.

Luanfeng has been modified to be more suitable for the high temperature inside the star. The maximum speed can only reach 31km/s. It was dragged to the surface of the star by another transport spacecraft and then went deep into Alpha Centauri B.

Yan Xia sat in the control room, and the screen was white.

After Ella's debugging, it finally showed an inverted color. The highlight area became dark, and the dark area became highlight. The principle is the same as the "inverted color mode" on the mobile phone.

The main body of the screen is dark purple, followed by a black color, and finally white.

The three colors interweave, and the black appears in a patchy state, which is a place with extremely high temperature.

Luanfeng flew all the way for 200 kilometers, and this is the location where Ella predicted the existence of the device.

But after a circle, nothing exists.

"My calculation is correct, the void inside the star definitely exists here."

"Could it be that the third civilization has also made fine adjustments to the mass inside the star?"

Ella urgently calculated, and the final result pointed to a position that was completely opposite to the previous calculation, which was the southern hemisphere of Alpha Centauri B.

Luanfeng first left the interior of the star, and then reached that place from the surface and plunged in.

But...

Still nothing!

"This is impossible!"

Ella mobilized 80% of the computing power of the host to calculate, and the result was still roughly the same.

Its error also surprised Yan Xia.

After all, there would be no mistakes in any of Ella's calculations before, which made him even think that Ella was an omnipotent system, not an AI written line by line from his own hands.

Now, when facing a higher civilization, Ella still showed weakness.

However, Ella should not make big mistakes in such basic calculations.

Whether it is the missing radioactive elements or the changes in the center of mass of the Nanmen II binary star, they all indicate that something is wrong here.

The reason why Luanfeng could not find the device may be that the device was hidden in a special way.

When Ella was anxious, Yan Xia was also thinking.

What means can the other civilization use to hide itself?

Now it is almost certain that the other party is a civilization above level 2.

After thinking for a full 8 days, Yan Xia suddenly came up with a conclusion.

"We have fallen into a thinking inertia, thinking that as long as it is a device, the size will be very large."

"But what if this device itself is not an independent individual, but a group?"

"A group of extremely small devices that can only be seen at the atomic level!"

Even Yan Xia himself felt very sci-fi when he said this guess.

The reason for proposing such a conjecture is entirely because of another technology of human civilization, nanorobots.

If a level 2 civilization has a way to unify the four fundamental forces, then they must have discovered the microscopic basic unit of strings. In the world of strings, nanometers are too large.

The size of the string is estimated to be 10^-34 meters, while 1 nanometer is only 10^-9 meters, a difference of 25 units. For the Level 2 civilization that discovered the string, the nanorobot is like a drop of water and the earth.

Yan Xia's words made Ella suddenly enlightened.

As an AI, it can simulate multiple possibilities, but these possibilities are obtained through keywords.

Its keywords include all the understandings of existing technology, but the understanding outside of technology will be excluded. After all, that is the science fiction part, and its possibilities are too many. After adding it, perhaps 1 trillion possibilities can be obtained. Even if each possibility is explored in only 1 minute, it will take nearly 2 million years.

Ella asked Luanfeng to capture some particles inside the star, and the collection points covered 100 areas of the star.

These fused atoms were carefully analyzed by Ella, and finally separated out something.

"Yan Xia, you are a genius!"

Ella used a scanning tunneling microscope that looked more than 50 dense to observe the structure of the separated object.

Surprisingly, it actually looked like a lepton.

Yan Xia also saw it through the image. The reason why it is called like is because its size is like a lepton, which means that this thing is not a lepton, but a microscopic mechanical particle as Yan Xia guessed before!

It is just like a quark-level ultra-small mechanical energy converter, which absorbs the energy generated by the decay of radioactive elements and stores it.

"It's amazing, this energy storage method."

Ella observed that its storage method is to convert the energy generated by the decay of radioactive elements into gravity or mass.

This makes this ultra-small energy converter 1000~7400 times heavier than ordinary leptons.

"It seems to be a grand unification!"

If you don't master the grand unification, you can't convert one force into another.

Even if Ella catches these mechanical energy converters, she can't study them thoroughly because they have a more sophisticated structure.

But these things made Ella recalculate the center of mass of the Alpha Centauri binary star.

Soon it discovered that the big hole it was looking for was not in Alpha Centauri B, it was just a 2b, and the real big hole was inside Alpha Centauri A.

These ultra-small energy converters provided additional mass for Alpha Centauri B, making it much larger than the originally calculated mass.

The phoenix flew away again.

This time it entered Alpha Centauri A at a depth of 700 kilometers. The energy of the phoenix could no longer block the ultra-high temperature here, and the heat of the energy shield melted the surface of the phoenix.

But the next moment, the phoenix suddenly entered a brand new world.

Thirteen overlapping and rotating rings stimulated powerful energy, forming a huge spherical space with a diameter of 120 kilometers here.

Each ring was extremely dark, with no gaps on the surface, as if cast in one piece. They surrounded a bright core in the center. The core was not a light source, but a huge compressed energy body.

The radioactive element energy captured by those small mechanical factories was stored here.

Its energy intensity is too huge, far exceeding the current Kate civilization, Yan Xia fleet and light-chasing civilization (Hundred Eyes) combined.

Ella analyzed that this group of energy has reached the total amount of energy of a 2.1-level civilization.

The thirteen rings are energy binding devices and also the assembly line for manufacturing those small mechanical energy converters.

This device manufactures a large number of small energy conversion and storage machines, which are placed inside and around stars, absorb a large amount of radioactive elements and then store them.

A complete production chain.

Yan Xia doesn't know why the civilization stores this energy in a star system that they have no control over.

But there is no doubt that the existence of the third civilization has been confirmed.

When the energy storage here reaches the set 100%, it may be the time for that civilization to harvest.

"Ella, develop according to the original plan."

"No matter how long it takes, we must reach level 2 in energy level."

"The civilization we are facing may do this in more than one star system, perhaps hundreds, or perhaps thousands, and its civilization level may have reached 2.5 or even above."

Another powerful civilization comparable to the light civilization.

This civilization may be a hegemon in the Milky Way.

How to fight against such a civilization?

Hiding and waiting to be undetected like the Kate civilization is just a cover-up. The real need is to be strong.

He wants to advance to level 2!